Sunday, December 05, 2010

Well, We're Not About To Make YouTube Fame Quite Yet

What to do on a Sunday afternoon?

While recovering from just a few short hours of sleep after the 10 year old's birthday party, I received an email from my good friend, KS, at While We're Waiting. She and Hann are studying their booties off in anticipation for Law School finals on Wednesday.

Let's pause a moment and conjure up what that might entail.

***more coffee than is likely healthy for an individual to consume.***more anxiety than a person should tolerate.***all encompassing panic if you're anything like me.

So, the girls sent me this request:

Hann and I are studying away today... read into that we're crabby bitches. She has fallen in love with your blog and your fam as much as I have (duh, how could she not) and she specifically requested that you send some cheer our way. She was thinking a video of Lainey and Batman, doing something crazy... but we trust your cheer judgment.

She also thought perhaps the kids could draw gold stars on the advent calendar on Wednesday... the day of the final exam we might fail. We feel like gold stars indicate smartness and a job well done.

Might be asking too much... but we're be forever obliged if you'd help brighten our day.

Who am I to deny them some Starnes craziness?

So, I took some inspiration from this masterpiece:

And, created this one:

I don't know what went wrong. Batman is so made for this kind of activity. That cat can tolerate anything.

I kind of have a whole new respect for our beloved Batman. He has limits. And, he'll claw and scratch and run to make sure you acknowledge them.

Wish I could send him up north to KS and Hann. I know he'd be just the good luck charm they're in need of for finals.

Since I cannot......and I'm assuming you don't have a wrapped cat to ship to Wisconsin, either......let's all color a gold star on Wednesday and wish these girls the best in their final days of studying.

Go, KS!Go, Hann!

Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to rescue Batman from the garage. I just know he's in there humming to himself, twiddling his paws, and praying the rosary.

That was some funny stuff right there! Sometimes, at our house, we put empty toilet paper rolls on our 2 golden retriever's front paws for our Friday night entertainment. We live in a small town, people.

LOVE the PETA thought bubble. Because we're total geeks, we actually compared the video to a recent Supreme Court case that commented on animal abuse videos... Don't worry. The court ruled that depictions of animal cruelty are protected under the First Amendment as free speech so you're good to go :)Hope Batman has recovered... still laughing our asses off over here. You guys made everything better!!!

And... yeah. We watched this again. And there were tears. Happy tears, not -suicidal-we-hate-life-and-want-to-die tears. So love that you made your kids wrap up your cat for us. We'll be back in about an hour when we feel like death once again.

Does Batman have his claws? Someone would have lost an eyeball if you tried to do that to one of my cats. I am very impressed with Batman's patience. Mako has his own spot under the tree and I have been very tempted to wrap him.

I'm going batty from finals myself. And I don't know if it's that, your psychotic children (minus Carter, except that he was willing embark on this journey), or the video inspiration...I might or might not have pissed my good sweats. Dammit Casey, I'm billing you. Fave? "Aaand....that's a fail."I love you KS! For inspiring this post, and for conquering Wednesday! Awesome. Just...no words.

That video is awesome. Love LC yelling at Batman for not staying. And Jack wanting to hit him to stay. And Carter wanting to lock all the doors. And you telling Carter to hurry up and do it because you're video'ing. Good stuff, Case. Good stuff.